Air Raids and Other Bombing

The War Responsible for my being in Cornwall

My auntie was married to a Cornishman and they lived in Gwinear, during the war I was evacuated down to...

First Time Seeing a Black American.

We were out of bed downstairs and into the garden and my father had a long handled shovel especially for...

A Cat's Tale

We lived in Folkestone, which was heavily bombed during the war by shells from France. It happened as my...

A Close Shave During The Blitz For A Belfast Family

I was there for the Easter Tuesday and I was only home from being at the Empire Theatre and the sirens went...

Recycling for Victory

On our bicycles we had lamps with big batteries. We had to take back old bicycle lamps and when the...

Up, up, and away!

I remember my Aunt Jean was a cooksergent during the war, and her finace at the time was a lietenant...

Kathleen's story

As a matter of fact it was the biggest bomb that was ever dropped on Ipswich during the War... Personally,...

From the Frying Pan right into the Fire.

Then in 1939, when war broke out mother realised we were living by a steelworks in London, so she wrote to...

The early years of the war

When war was declared, Felicia was on her way up from their Holiday in Great Yarmouth on a motorbike and...

Dad’s random memories pt 2

Dad remembers watching the planes go over for the ‘1000 Bomber’ raids and thinking they'd...

The plane shot at us on Hessle Road

During the war my dad lived on Hessle Road, opposite Gordon Street Police Station... Then my dad shouted...

Bombs Hanging Above Bomb Shelter

When my wife, Peggy Dodd, was living at home with her parents in Oakfield Park Road, Wilmington, they had...

The Great Big Mound

There was one that crashed they said over in Lodge Wood. It was said that one German who had worked there,...

Sunday Ride Out

One Sunday morning my Dad said 'Let's cycle over to Springfield and see Uncle Ted at Springfield...

The Windmill Lane near miss

Mother worked for Mitchells and Butlers brewers, after doing a late night shift she was returning home, and...

Land Army F.A.N.Y

Uniform not good no warmth, very poor admin, if only from Headquarters... Went to work in the dark and sat...

World War Two memories Around Saxilby

In Odder Lane, Sxilby near the River Till the Germans dropped bombs in Frank Goods field. Our aircraft took...

Lost in Newcastle

I landed at Newcastle and nobody knew me or had any notification I was arriving. It turned out they had...

Sheltering from the Blitz

When the sirens went off at night my brother took no notice and stayed in bed. He didn't want to go to...

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Joan Carpenter was called up as a Land Girl at the start of the War... Joan now lives in Felixstowe, and...

Caught in Bullet Fire in Aberdeen

One day I was walking along Summer Street when a German plane flew the length of Union Street....

Worth a Smack?

I was about four and a half years old and attending what we called Hornsea Little School, close to Hornsea...

Bring out the Deck Chairs!

Bring out the Deck Chairs. When we got used to it we used to get out deck chairs on the porch....

Unexploded Bombs

Another time a bomb was dropped in the River Witham by the High Bridge... I believe that was the unexploded...

"STOP FIRING OR MY MAN WILL STOP WORKING"

I was about nine in the war but I can remember my father ploughing at Ranscombe Farm, Mount Caburn, near...

Five Laid out in A Row

My parents and brother and I went to the Lickey Hills every night when the bombing was on... The night our...